Yes, Marko's BaseTen is excellent, and the PostgreSQL support for the Mac as a platform is quite good. The only downside really, is that there is an outstanding issue with regards to collation in certain locales on BSD based systems, of which OS X is one, so long as you are us_EN and UTF-8, you'll be fine, but there are issues with the us_FR and a few others.
Andy 'Dru' Satori On Apr 29, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Joshua Tidsbury <joshua.tidsb...@ctv.ca> wrote: > Flavio, >> Well... That's a good enough reason. Driving that Sun stuff through exec() >> and command-line utilities should be extremely painful and hard to maintain >> in the future. >> > Indeed, I did consider that for about 5 seconds, then smacked myself in the > forehead... >> Do you really need to use MySQL -- or any other full-fledged RDBMS? I am not >> sure how big will be your dataset, how often it will be updated and how many >> users you'll have, so I can't help that much. >> > We're looking at about 100 users (for now), and a dataset starting at about 3 > million rows. This will grow steadily through the years though, at a rate of > about 3+ million rows per year. >> If you really need an RDBMS, you could consider PostgreSQL and the BaseTen >> framework (basetenframework.org). It feels a lot like Core Data, but for >> Postgres. >> > I actually had my head buried in the sand solely thinking of MySQL, only for > sake of familiarity. But this framework looks fantastic - I'll play around > with it and see what I can come up with. And I have little doubt that > PostgreSQL has plenty of power to pull this sort of project off. >> Why do we, developers, love challenges? ;) >> > The question of the ages :) > > Take care, > Josh_______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/dru%40druware.com > > This email sent to d...@druware.com > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
